Eric Weiner Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
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I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
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Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.
